Franziska Hansen

Franziska Hansen received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechatronics, specializing in Industrial and Medical Robotics, from Leibniz University Hanover in 2021 and 2024, respectively. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in the fields of Automated Control and Robotics for 3 years and as a working student for a surgical robot developer for 1.5 years. In 2023, she attended Purdue University as a research scholar before joining SPARC as a PhD candidate in 2024.

Research Interests

• Motion Planning
• Robot-Assisted Surgery
• Human-Robot Collaboration
• Reinforcement Learning in Medical Robotics